According to a recent Ipsos Public Affairs report, 83 percent of e-commerce merchants say their sales have increased since offering Express Checkout from PayPal. Of the online retailers that are able to track their revenues, sales...

Online retailers suffer greatly when they depend on a payment provider and that system crashes. Such was the case recently when both Authorize.net and PayPal went down within weeks of each other. Lost sales can be devastating. But...

Google today launched what ultimately could be the most serious threat to PayPal yet. The Google Checkout Store Gadget , a product of Google Labs, enables the creation of an online store that's powered by Google Checkout. What...

Last week Google announced the availability of Buy Now buttons for the exclusive purpose of selling digital goods. If you're an e-book seller or provider of individual software downloads you'll be very interested in this development...

Online form service FormSpring announced the integration of four popular online payment systems. Users are now able to work with Authorize.net, LinkPoint and Google Checkout (FormSpring upgraded its PayPal integration for the fourth...